Starting Next Week: Rich Text Editor

Editing your product descriptions, submitting blog posts and writing your page content is about to get a lot easier. After a few months in Beta, our new Rich Text Editor (RTE) will be available to all stores.

To make text appear bold, italic, blue... highlight the words and click on the appropriate button on the RTE bar.

One of the coolest things about this RTE is how simple it is to add images, videos, tables and scripts.

When you click on “Insert” and select “Image”, you can browse in a new window all your product images. Saving you the hassle of searching images on your computer.

It will also resize images automatically, just pick the size you want from a drop down menu.

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19 comments

Jeff

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

What will happen to pages that already have a bunch of custom html in them? I imagine nothing will happen if we don’t touch them, but what if I go to edit a page with the RTE that’s got a bunch of my own html? Is that html then just going to show up as text if I re-save the page?

Basically my entire site has html on every product page, so this could be a nightmare if it doesn’t convert the current html.

FANTASTIC! As someone who is still learning their way around all the functions you have just made it so much easier to enhance my product pages. Thank you. Guess you sometimes get what you silently as for!

Mofi

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

Great News for us that are just starting with Shopify! Thanks!

eda

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

No ABC checking? This function plays great part of my English life, specially on the site task.. hope it for the next progression.

Helen Walker

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

Thank you , thank you, thank you! This new innovation sounds so great – thanks a million, looking forward to testing this out. All the best, Helen.

Kate

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

Sounds great – I’ll look forward to it.

Mike Andrews

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

With this new innovation …by what percent should I be able to improve the appearance of my website? from 1% to 100%.

Matthew

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

This looks like a great solution embedding things like contact forms. We are wrapping a site for launch this week—when will this be online?

Walt Webb

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

Sounds like great news. I am all for anything that makes things easier and can save time.
Was wondering though, I have my own domain name http://allsportsbaseballgloves.com which forwards to my shopify website listed above. Problem is that the shopify address is the one that gets the page rank and I would like to have the domain name ranking.
Are there any suggestions on how to do this??
Sincerely Walt (Web Market Industries)

Ray Brown

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

Sweet! Thanks, Shopify peeps.

serretta

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

excellent development as this will save us manually adding html formatting into the text as we do currently!

Aurelien

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

Walt: Make sure that http://allsportsbaseballgloves.com is set as the “Primary domain”. Look under “Preferences”, “DNS & Domain”. Let me know how it works out.

John

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

@jeff, @jonathan: Nothing will happen with your existing html. Any custom html code you’ve added in textile will appear as html in the new editor.

Patrick Hitches

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

This is AWESOME!!! Best news I’ve heard in quite some time!

You guys rock and I look forward to using the new editor!

Patrick Hitches

Tobia

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

can’t wait!!

Tamsin

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

That’s cool. Nice one.

Michele

April 30 2010, 11:20AM

Hi guys at Shopify
I’ve just tried to update a blog on the front page of the web site and have had some problems with the new editor.
Couldn’t seem to work out how to make a link of the product words in the ‘live’ editor part – the insert link button was greyed out. Had to go into html to look at the formatting and it was several times more complicated than in the past.
To make a link of say Te Hera Pinot to the product, all I used to do was Te Hera Pinot by the product link) – took 2 seconds. There must be something simple I’ve missed about the new stuff.